The Politics of Milk in Canada

Canada's dairy policy is a very complex web of
interrelated policies, programs, and people nested in a number of
private and public institutions. In short, it is a system. But it
is a system whose creation, expansion, and vigorous defence has
been motivated almost entirely by milk producers, i.e., dairy
farmers. They are its true authors. If they wanted to end the
elaborate supply management marketing scheme, open up the border
to imports, or renounce the cash subsidies from governments,
these changes would be made very quickly by
governments.